Tragedy Offstage: Suffering and Sympathy in Ancient Athens by Rachel Hall Sternberg

Tragedy Offstage: Suffering and Sympathy in Ancient Athens

Rachel Hall Sternberg

238 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

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Humane ideals were central to the image Athenians had of themselves during the classical period. This book draws on evidence from Greek oratory and historiography of the 5th and 4th centuries BCE to study the moral universe of the Athenians.

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